To:G. V. PLEKHANOV

Published:First published in 1928.

      Sent from Munich to Geneva.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1974,

      Moscow,Volume 34,

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February 7, 1902

Iam sending you the draft programme with Berg’s
amendments. Please write whether you will insert the
amendments or present a complete counterdraft. I should
like to know also which passages you have found
unsatisfactory.

Regardingreligion, in a letter of Karl Marx on the Gotha
Programme I read a sharp criticism of the demand forGewissensfreiheit[1]and a statement that Social-Democrats
ought to speak out plainly about their fight againstreligiösem
Spuk.[2][5]Do you consider such a thing possible
and in what form? In the matter of religion we are less
concerned about cautiousness than the Germans, as is the
case, too, in regard to the “republic”.

Willyou please let Koltsov copy from your copy; it will
not take much time.

Howis your work going (if you are writing an article
forZarya, as we assume)? When do you think you will
finish it?

Youhave still not sent meNeue Zeit(Nos.1and3) and
theletter on the agrarian programme! Please send them or
write why there has been this delay.

Ihave orderedConrad’s Jahrbücher[6]for 1902 for you.Wirtschaftliche Chronikfor 1901 will come out in
February—it will be sent to you then. Have you subscribed toTorgovo-Promyshlennaya
Gazeta[7]and have you already
begun to receive it?

Haveyou heard anything more about theRabocheye
Dyelopeople? We haven’t heard a thing.

Mypamphlet is being set
up.[3]

Vorwärtshas refused to publish even a condensed reply
and the matter has gone to theVorstand.[4]It is said that
Bebel is on our side. We shall see.

Allthe very best.Yours,Frey

[1]Freedomof conscience.—Ed.

[2]Religiousspookery.—Ed.

[3]WhatIs To Be Done?(See present edition, Vol. 5).—Ed.

[4]ExecutiveCommittee (of the German Social-Democratic
Party).—Ed.

[5]SeeMarx and Engels,Selected Works, Vol. 11, Moscow, 1962, p. 35.
p. 94

[6]Conrad’sJahrbücher—Jahrbücher für
Nationalökonomie und Statistik—a periodical published in
Jena from 1868 by the bourgeois economist J. Conrad. p. 94

[7]Torgovo-PromyshlennayaGazeta(Commercial Industrial
Gazette)—a daily supplement toVestnik Finansov, Promyshlennosti
i Torgovli(Finance, Industry and Trade Herald); published in
St. Petersburg from 1893 to 1918. From 1894 onward was issued as an
independent publication. p. 94